Virtualmin stop safe?

[vincen]

Hi

Due to some maintenances I have to do on a server, I need to destroy the current temp volume used by Virtualmin/Webmin to rebuild a new one. Can I stop the Webmin/virtualmin service the time to do the change ? or will it shut down some essential services (out of course of the web access at it) ?
The maintenance will take few minutes and I guess it’s ok but prefer to be double-safe
I plan to do it that way:

• change temp directory of Virtualmin/webmin to a temporary folder
• Stop service of Webmin and Virtualmin
• do my modifications to rebuild the new temp directory for webmin/virtualmin
• Restart Webmin/Virtualmin and setup it with the new temp directory
• do an other restart of Webmin/Virtualmin to be sure I can clean the temporary temp folder.

Does it sound the good way ?

Thanks

Vincèn

[Stegan]

is this not where

helps you?

[dimitrist]

@vincen

or will it shut down some essential services (out of course of the web access at it) ?

nope, webmin is an “independent” service, doesn’t stop/affect any other daemons when its down.
just virtualmin/webmin access.

[shoulders]

@Stegan information only relates to a virtuamin virtual server and will not stop any OS services.

If you are messing with your drive, back everything up and then shut the server down.

If you are using LVM there is a module for that but I have not used it and I have no experience in LVM layouts.

[Joe]

Sure, there’s no harm in stopping Webmin/Virtualmin.

It will not stop any services other than Webmin/Virtualmin and the scheduled tasks Webmin/Virtualmin runs (Let’s Encrypt renewals, for example). But, all scheduled tasks can be delayed by a day or two or three without serious harm.

[Joe]

That’s disabling an individual virtual server (domain) in Virtualmin, nothing to do with OPs question about stopping Webmin.

[vincen]

@Joe

It will not stop any services other than Webmin/Virtualmin and the scheduled tasks Webmin/Virtualmin runs (Let’s Encrypt renewals, for example). But, all scheduled tasks can be delayed by a day or two or three without serious harm.

Thanks for confirmation and yeah I’ll be sure to do that also when no backups are running to avoid any issue on that side too

Vincèn